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Chapter 9 - Peace and Order

9.03 KEEPING LIVESTOCK WITHIN THE VILLAGE LIMITS.
(1) No person shall erect, place, maintain or continue any stable, pen, coop, yard or

other building upon any lot or ground in the Village for the purpose of confining
or housing any domestic animal, fur bearing animal or fowl unless the same shall
be at least 25’ distant from any dwelling, house, apartment, hotel, restaurant, food
or drinking establishment or rooming house, school, church or any building
wherein people are employed, and unless the floor of such building, stable or coop
be constructed of such material and in such a manner that it can be kept clean and
sanitary at all times, and unless the location of such shall be authorized by the
Board of Health.

(2) All stables and other buildings wherein livestock or fur bearing animals are kept
shall be provided with fly-tight bins or other tightly closed receptacles for manure,
which shall be removed sufficiently often and in such manner as to prevent its
becoming a nuisance. No manure shall be allowed to accumulate on the floor or on
adjacent ground.

(3) Chicken hatcheries and nurseries shall be completely housed in buildings with
adequate ventilating systems, the vent outlets of which shall be so located that
no objectionable odors shall reach adjacent or surrounding premises or buildings.

(4) All pens, coops, enclosures or yards where domestic animals, fur bearing animals or
fowl are confined shall be kept in a clean and sanitary manner and free from
objectionable odors at all times.

(5) The Village Police Chief shall strictly enforce the provisions of this section and
see that all violations thereof are promptly abated and the violators thereof
prosecuted.

9.04 OPEN BURNING.

(1) INTENT. It is the intent of this Section that all allowed Open Burning be conducted
in a safe, pollution-free manner, when wind and weather conditions are such as to
minimize adverse effects of the Open Burning and with conditions that protect life
and property.

(2) DEFINITIONS. The following definitions shall be applicable in this Section:

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